Some Criticism on My Training

So you want to increse the size of your arms, chest and shoulders by several inches each, but you want to weigh only 194…at 6’4"? Are you kidding? I can’t imagine someone that height wanting to weigh less than 220. And that would still be pretty thin.

Sorry to be harsh but you goals seem silly to me. I don’t know why you think that being built like a toothpick will help you carry around an 80lb pack. Being stonger and carrying more muscle will make stuff like this much easier for you.

I don’t know what kind of progress you have made since you started training but IMO your numbers kind of suck for three years of work. That is probably because your training sucked and your diet really sucks. The sample diet you wrote sucks. You are eating just slightly more than nothing, and that is why you are so skinny and weak. The good new is those problems are easy to fix.

I recommend reading Massive Eating, Parts I and II, by Dr. John Berardi. Do the math for yourbodyweight in Part II. You will be suprised at how much more you should be eating.

I agree with people on this who mention Grease the Groove for increasing push ups. Maybe something simple like One LIft A Day for maximal strength and muscle mass combined with GTG for push ups and sit-ups would work. I dunno.

Since your doing the routine I had recomended, I feel it my duty to advise you on a couple of points.

1st- your doing a nice set of exercises but there is no need to rep the same amount everytime.

Bruce actually did 2 sets in the 6-12 rep range. 8 reps for everything except the bench press was 6 and the squat was 12. He was innterested in strength without the added size. (He didnt want to add muscle size & lose his speed.)

I would still stick to that fullbody routine but tweak it a little.

2nd-Use a progressive overload. This will build the strength and build the muscle.

Example:(use these rep ranges and you’ll be activating different muscle fibers and using breaking down and rebuilding more muscle){technically , if your repping to 12 everytime to failure you missing alot of muscle fiber in the other rep ranges. Once you rep a set # to failure, you are basicly done with the muscle fiber there; no need to keep doing sets in that range. And if your repping 12 everytime without failure, your somewhat going thru the motions.(your not really working the muscle by trying to rep to a certain #…rep ranges are guidelines of how much resistance you will need to fail in that range.

Warm Up set- 16-20 reps with something you could max 40 times
set 1- 11-15 reps to failure or 95%
set 2- 6-10 reps to failure or 95%
(optional)final set- 1-5 reps to failure
…then move onto the next exercise

Using bodyweight exercises like the dip/weighted dip, squat/weighted squat, push up/weighted push up, will put the bulk on your frame.

Consider the mass people get from doing heavy squats. (all this is, is a weighted bodyweight exercise)

Same exact principal as a push up and a dip

You only add the weight as in a squat when the unweighted version is not a big enough load to produce the mass you want.

IMO there is no better exercise for adding mass onto the upperbody like the weighted dip or weighted push up.

for endurance you can do sets of 20 & 25 reps to prepare you for military training.

71 push ups in 2 mimutes will be a joke if you train like you can. You will be able to do 75 without even getting tired yet. 100 push ups in 2 minutes should be easy to achieve with a high frequency regimen of doing push ups in short sets.

I’ve went thru the sel Navy Seal prep routine myself a couple of times. If you want an excellent muscle endurance routine, try this one after you have built up some decent strength thru this Bruce Lee routine.

The Navy Seal routine will train you to build up a push up & dip tollerance that will make almost all bodybuilders jealous of your physiqu and endurance.

In my opinion,you need to build up your strength in the compound barbell exercises. Then add some size through those weighted-bodyweight exercises. (since you seem to be after the size also)

Finally get to your main goal which is probably the muscle endurance, so you can ready score was on all the militay’s physical fitness tests.

The Navy Seal Program is what I would do personally, it will accommodate everything you need. Strength, a little bulking and most of all muscle endurance.

You can build up muscle by doing endurance exercises. I built bigger biceps than my friend that had 2" bigger arms than mine to start with.

He used a 1 day a week, 12 high intensity set program and needed 6 days to recover from that.

I used a 4 set routine daily of extremely high reps, some as high as 50 & 100 rep sets of curls. It can be done. Its just not the norm.

One last thing, Bruce Lee did that routine for strength, the side effect was the size which he was not after.

Navy Seals routine is for endurance & they get mass bulking risidual effects from it.

Stick to Bruces routine until you feel strong enough. Then take a short break and then get into the Navy Seal routine immediatly. That program will kick your ass. I can easily do push ups in 100-rep sets, but that program will kick anybodys ass. Did mine. Extremely high endurance routine.
Running, Swimming, Push ups, dips, pull ups, sit ups; the Seal workout includes all these things that you will need or are looking for. 71 push ups in 2 minutes LMAO! Do this routine and you will destroy that criteria.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the advice, are you referring to the SEAL QUEST prep workout?

[quote]neveryield wrote:
Thanks for the advice, are you referring to the SEAL QUEST prep workout?[/quote]

I’m not sure of the exact name of it. I downloaded of the internet and i believe it was just called Navy seal Pre Training for BUDS. I think.

Its the one that starts off running thrice a week for to miles increasing up to 6 miles everyday by the end of the program. It also uses the sidestroke with & without fins. Also the push ups/ dips starts slow then increases heavily up to 20 and 25 sets of push ups.

What exactly is your goal with your workout? I can understand it (barely) if you’re going for endurance and don’t want the muscleweight, but how can you be 182 lbs at that height and still be 11.5 % bodyfat? And after you’ve been training for 3 years?

I’m 6’4" too and have trained for close to 4 years now. My weight is around 192 lbs at 6% bodyfat though and I think I’m one skinny bastard… My new workout plan consists mostly of stuffing my face…

Oh god, I’m embarressed I got fooled into answering this thread… You got me.

[quote]SirPhisticated wrote:
6’4" 182.0lbs 11.5%bf

What exactly is your goal with your workout? I can understand it (barely) if you’re going for endurance and don’t want the muscleweight, but how can you be 182 lbs at that height and still be 11.5 % bodyfat? And after you’ve been training for 3 years?

I’m 6’4" too and have trained for close to 4 years now. My weight is around 192 lbs at 6% bodyfat though and I think I’m one skinny bastard… My new workout plan consists mostly of stuffing my face…
[/quote]

Alot of times its hard to tell by a persons weight.

Depends on bodyfat%, bone and joint structure, muscle mass.

I used to wrestle(and the weight classes were 5 lbs apart) and when i would weigh in nobodyy believed i weighed in as light as i did. I was always taller than my opponents and had alot more muscle. I clearly looked 10 to 15 lbs heavier than them all.

I’m naturally 135 at 5’11". I put on 40lbs of muscle and still on weigh 175. Most people think i weigh closer to 190 or 200. I have always had a very light skeletal structure, low BF%, and just weigh nothing. #‘s can be decieving. I bench 340lbs at 175 bodyweight, my brother benches 175lbs at 205 bodyweight, he is also 5’ 8"

I’m 3 inches taller and 30 lbs lighter. Standing side by side, he looks like a runt next to me with a beer belly. And he weighs 30 lbs more tham me. Once again be careful judging weight. Similiar to fat-loss diets. A person could be losing water and muscle and think its fat.

Training goal?